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5 Pounds - Elizabeth II End of World War I - Sea Blockade
| Issuer | Alderney |
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| Year | 2008 |
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| Engraver(s) | Ian Rank-Broadley |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Alderney's position in the Channel Islands gave this commemorative unusual moral weight: the island was itself occupied by German forces from 1940 to 1945, and its entire civilian population had been evacuated in June 1940 — one of the only mass evacuations of British subjects from British territory in the war. The naval blockade of Germany, which this coin commemorates, began in 1914 and contributed to an estimated 400,000 to 800,000 German civilian deaths from malnutrition and disease by the armistice.
The blockade continued for eight months after the November 1918 armistice, through the Paris Peace Conference, a decision that hardened German public resentment well into the 1920s.